Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) cloud is a complete and connected solution, based on configurable business processes.
Allows your company adapting to change in a competitive and changing environment.
Oracle EPM Cloud implies a complete solution integrating all processes within your organization.
The clear trend over the past years, is the evolution of platforms from Windows-based client/server systems to cloud, web-based applications.
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Moving to EPM Cloud… Why?
- Decrease costs of hardware and IT, eliminating the need of that investment.
- Faster implementation and upgrades, which also reduce costs.
- On-premises finance applications can be a barrier to process innovation.
- Cloud services can push new application features to users immediately, leading to faster upgrades. This allows users to work with the latest version of the software.
- Improves agility in financial and operational EPM processes.
- Ease integration and ability to expand, increasing flexibility to meet changing needs.
- Enhanced user experience through a user-friendly environment.
Moving to the cloud takes careful planning. Amarante Consulting helps your organization to make the best decision based on your business needs.
Planning & Forecasting
- Goal-oriented and easy to create dashboards and reports.​
- Ability to check the state of your business plan in a specific time.​
- In-memory calculations and aggregations to refresh and update instantly all your data.​
- Create customized models and connect different processes to integrate your planning, forecasting and reporting within your entire organization.​
- A d-hoc and What-If scenario modelling. Predictive capabilities with different versions based on several assumptions.​
- Powerful calculation engine.​​​
Scenario Modelling
- Built-in scenario modelling capabilities.​
- Evaluate the impact of strategic decisions on different financial scenarios.​
- Built-in financial statements and scenario analysis that allows adding complex what-if modelling.
Close and Consolidation
- Configured to meet individual requirements that your organization needs.
- Predefined dimensions for analysis in detail.
- Dynamic out-of-the-box calculations and quick deployments.
- Combination of pre-seeded and customizable content.
- Easily accommodation of complex calculations and requirements.
- Flexible solution avoiding the need of complicated scripting.
- Management of key performance metrics across your organization.
- Trusted and transparent calculations, in combination with auditing and task segregation result in a strong compliance solution.
- Powerful consolidation features:
- Intercompany and equity eliminations
- Journals with workflow
Currency translations. - Built-in foreign exchange and currency translation adjustment calculations.
- Automated cash flow reporting and detailed tracking of data source.
- Multi-GAAP reporting.
Extended Close
- Supplemental data gathering.
- Capacity to track information in detail through signoffs, validation and drill-back from source.
- Ability to improve the whole process by monitoring, tracking and analysing tasks.
- Easily reporting to stakeholders in a timely and accurate manner.
- Fast and accurate insights.​
Tax Reporting
Tax Provision
- Automation of your tax processes through calculation directly from the source.​
- Complete tax package and workflow engine to collect data from all your organization regions.​
- Strong control over the data collection procedure.​
- Check the status of your tax provision process in real time.​
- Calculation addressing global accounting principles and standards (GAAP or IFRS).​
- Integrated with Tax Compliance Software, allowing to import and export data easily..​
Country-by-Country Reporting Template
- Full transparency by populating data from any ERP finance system.
- Web-based template to collect data both automatically and manually.
- Workflow engine ensures process to be controlled and completed in time.
- Dashboards with KPIs.
- Integration with Narrative Reporting.
Tax Schedules and Dashboards​​
- Automated data collection, calculation and analysis.
- Pre-defined and custom dashboards for any tax metric.
- Constant Tax process improvement.​
Tax Calendar
Ability to maintain important dates in a single system.
Workflows for collaboration with approvals.
Integration with Microsoft Office for daily tasks.
Secure cloud-based application.
Access and rights limited by roles.​​​
Oracle EPM Cloud Data Integration
- Integration with ERP applications.
- Integration with source systems such as spreadsheets or databases.
- Financial decisions based on multiple sources.
- Integration with Microsoft Office.
Narrative Reporting
Oracle Narrative Reporting provides a complete solution for management, narrative and regulatory reporting.
Information Access
- Ability to integrate with existing Microsoft Office or PDF reports.
- Integration of data from multiple sources such as spreadsheets, databases, EPM applications and bot Oracle and Non-Oracle sources.
- Web-based report designer to create charts and grids from multiple sources.
- Trusted and consistent data.
Authoring
- Easy and intuitive to use.
- Flexibility to create grids, charts, reports and narratives.
- Ability to configure access permissions and version control in order to track the document lifecycle.
- Reusability of content in order to ease the maintenance.
- Powerful reports combining data with narrative content to produce actionable insights.
Review and Commentary
- Flexibility by performing review cycles.
- Comments for report packages or individual report sections.
- Robust framework for creating and editing comments.
Publishing and Delivery
- Easy to access reports and Ad Hoc analysis by mobile, web or Microsoft Office.
- Ability to create books of financial data by grouping reports.
- Narrative reports allow to reach financial decisions and insights.
- Ability to distribute reports at any point in a secure and auditable manner.
Regulatory Reporting
- Ability to manage XBRL taxonomies.
- Produce XBRL reports by tags in Microsoft Word and Excel.
- Validate XBRL tagging and check data by rules and calculations to generate accurate and compliant results.
- Ability to publish reports in multiple formats.
Oracle EPM Cloud Collaboration and Workflow
- Groups of users can work together in a report by distributing sections among them.
- Create notifications for users with task deadlines.
- Ability to check the report status and create process and approval flows by sections.
Enterprise Data Management
Oracle Narrative Reporting provides a complete solution for management, narrative and regulatory reporting.
Collate Enterprise Data from Contributing Applications
- Connect with business applications through adapters in an easy way.
- Import and export from connected applications.
- Ability to importing dimensions, lists and hierarchies.
- No need to validate data on entry level.
- Improve data quality by validating viewpoints.
- Record any change request for audit.
- REST API to automation and integration.
- Ability to configure different business perspectives to align changes
Curate Changes to Enterprise Data Elements
- All changes can be made by users through requests.
- Create or change data, relationships,… by using requests.
- Use validations during requests.
- Visualize each request item, model it and associate actions.
- Use requests to submit new items or change them.
- Automated change orchestration.
Conform Changes Across Different Business Perspectives
- Ability to validate a request or the entire viewpoint in real time.
- Comparison and rationalization of different perspectives to analyse differences.
- Visual and rich user interface.
Consume Changes Among Downstream Business Applications
- ​Integration with connected applications with the ability to export dimensions and mappings.
- Ability to export files and download viewpoints.
- Collaborate and share, maintain files offline.
- Automated integrations via REST API.
- Available history for audit purposes.
Account Reconciliation
Reconciliation Compliance
- ​Manage account reconciliation processes at any level required by the business.
- Track the preparer and approver assignments for each reconciliation.
- Design workflows to distribute the account reconciliation process among teams.
- Use pre-defined or custom reconciliation formats.
- Flexible environment.
- Rule-based thresholds for automated certification and risk assessments.
- Check the progress and status of the process by using signoffs and approvals.
Transaction Matching​
- Automated performance of high-volume reconciliation.
- Save time, improve quality and reduce risk of reconciliation.
- Flexible rules for matching with custom thresholds.
- Suggested and custom matching.
- Manage variance and resolution of adjustments.
- Period-end balancing reports accomplishing compliance requirements.
Conform Changes Across Different Business Perspectives
- Ability to validate a request or the entire viewpoint in real time.
- Comparison and rationalization of different perspectives to analyse differences.
- Visual and rich user interface.
Consume Changes Among Downstream Business Applications
- Integration with connected applications with the ability to export dimensions and mappings.
- Ability to export files and download viewpoints.
- Collaborate and share, maintain files offline.
- Automated integrations via REST API.
- Available history for audit purposes.
Profitability and Cost Management
Allocation Engine
- Multiple source data combined with operational metrics and dimensions.
- Ability to execute complex requirements through enterprise quality.
- Detailed step validation reports, bringing transparency and control to your data.
- Integrity of data through a scalable solution.
- Secure application with role-based access and rights.
Model Builder
- Intuitive and simple to use and maintain, create or alter complex allocation rules using the best practice framework.
- Empower users by giving them ownership for rule building and data acquisition.
- Enterprise profitability analysis evolve as business evolves.
- Complete audit history by a secure repository and the auto-documenting feature.
- Changes can be made by business users.
- Drivers can be re-used across different business processes.
- Ability to use for the entire organization, divided by departments, products,…
Conform Changes Across Different Business Perspectives
- Ability to validate a request or the entire viewpoint in real time.
- Comparison and rationalization of different perspectives to analyse differences.
- Visual and rich user interface.
Consume Changes Among Downstream Business Applications
- Integration with connected applications with the ability to export dimensions and mappings.
- Ability to export files and download viewpoints.
- Collaborate and share, maintain files offline.
- Automated integrations via REST API.
- Available history for audit purposes.
Other Solutions
Oracle Hyperion
Oracle's performance management applications are a modular suite of integrated applications that can be deployed either independently or together.
Oracle Hyperion integrates strategic, financial, and operational management processes while delivering a low cost of deployment and ownership.
Other Solutions
OneStream
Simplified solution for complex organizations.
Reduces close times by automated data loading, reconciliation and reporting.
Error detection with pre and post load validations.
Complete transparency in data and changes.
Confidence and control with audit trails and drill back capabilities.
Other Solutions
Board
On-premise, on-hosting or on-cloud: you can easily implement Board with the same reliability, security, and robustness.
With Board, you can choose the model that best fits your business at the point of roll-out, with the freedom to move to a different model if and when your needs change.
Other Solutions
Lucanet
Reliable representation of simultaneous and step consolidation.
Completely automated procedures across all consolidation steps and group structures of any depth.
System-supported quality assurance.
Continuous workflow support.
